Review – Circolombia
There has been a lot of hype about this show so I was very excited as we piled into the Big Top at the Garden of Unearthly Delights.
Category: Garden of Unearthly Delights
Review – Tommy Little: Sex, Drugs and Herbal Tea
Little is very funny. He is also very good looking but don’t be fooled by this charmer, sometimes the things that come out of his mouth make you giggle, cringe then giggle again.
Review – Pants Down Circus
While the name may hint at some kind of adult burlesque circus antics, nothing could be further from the truth – this is family-friendly, innocent fun.
Review – Morgan & West: Clockwork Miracles
This is not your run-of-the-mill magic show. This one has a coherent and engaging storyline tying all the tricks together.
Review – Peter Combe: Quirky Berserky The Turkey from Turkey
Kid’s songs are simple, but that doesn’t necessarily make them easy to write or perform, and Combe’s consummate delivery demonstrated why he has endured for so long.
Review – EastEnd Cabaret: Notoriously Kinky
EastEnd Cabaret were one of our favourite acts last year and with good bloody reason too.
Review – Oliver Tank
Oliver Tank plays smooth music. It’s reflective, romantic, aspiring – it exists on that other plane where emotions are intricate and overwhelming, to be wondered at and mourned for their evanescent beauty.
Review – Comic Strip
The Garden of Unearthly Delights’ successful explosion over the years into a weekend bogan haven ensures the continuation of late-night strip-shows and lazy, boozy stand-up that may make any fan of ‘the arts’ dread to ever enter.
Review – Tim Fitzhigham: The Gambler
Fitzhigham explodes on to the stage with the manic energy we’ve come to expect from British comedy.
Review – Dandyman
Physical comedy is a bit of a poisoned chalice. Audiences have largely come to accept that jugglers are for children and adults are only meant to enjoy bitter, observational stand-up.
Review – Flanders and Swann
“Mud Mud Glorious Mud” and “Gnu” were freakin’ top of the pops between sixty and seventy years ago but they hold up well over time as completely ridiculous songs.
Review – Abandoman
Abandoman is an entirely improvised show, powered by the audience, their stories and the objects in their pockets and handbags.
Review – Sammy J: Potentially!
Comedy shows have framing devices. It’s a fact of life: you need something to bookend your show, a big revelatory note on which you can end the night, to show you’re a human being and not just a joke machine.
Review – Dave Thornton: Tall & Pointy
Every wondered about what it is to be a male, a metrosexual male, in a women’s world? Well that’s what Dave Thornton questioned and explored with his audience, on one hot Adelaide night.
